The Iron Dream

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The Iron Dream

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Utopias and dystopias
In Norman Spinrad’s black comedy The Iron Dream (1972), a frustrated Adolf Hitler immigrates and becomes an American pulp SF novelist, to weirdly convincing effect. Whether pleasant or sinister, heavenly or apocalyptic, utopias and dystopias shared a sublime sense of ahistoricality. All solutions were necessarily final solutions, and the triumph,…
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In Norman Spinrad’s black comedy The Iron Dream (1972), a frustrated Adolf Hitler immigrates and becomes an American pulp SF novelist, to weirdly convincing effect. Whether pleasant or sinister, heavenly or apocalyptic, utopias and dystopias shared a sublime sense of ahistoricality. All solutions were necessarily final solutions, and the triumph,…
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